BISD finance director McCraney submits resignation letter

Brooke Cru, Beaumont Enterprise

By Brooke Crum

Updated 3:36 pm, Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Devin McCraney appears at the Jack Brook Federal Building, where he and former BISD employee both entered a plea of not guilty in relation to federal embezzlement charges. Photo: Guiseppe Barranco, @spotnewsshooter

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin McCraney, pictured, and former comptroller Sharika Allison, not pictured, plead innocent Thursday morning in Zack Hawthorn's federal courtroom. The trial is set for early next month.
Photo taken Thursday,
Guiseppe Barranco/@spotnewsshooter
Photo: Guiseppe Barranco, Photo Editor

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin...

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin McCraney, pictured, and former comptroller Sharika Allison, not pictured, plead innocent Thursday morning in Zack Hawthorn's federal courtroom. The trial is set for early next month.
Photo taken Thursday,
Guiseppe Barranco/@spotnewsshooter
Photo: Guiseppe Barranco, Photo Editor

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin...

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin McCraney, not pictured, and former comptroller Sharika Allison, pictured, plead innocent Thursday morning in Zack Hawthorn's federal courtroom. The trial is set for early next month.
Photo taken Thursday,
Guiseppe Barranco/@spotnewsshooter
Photo: Guiseppe Barranco, Photo Editor

Indicted from the FBI's recent investigation into BISD, Devin...

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced the indictment of Devin Wayne McCraney, 35, and Sharika Baksh Allison, 43, on federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas at a press release Thursday. Michael Rivera/@michaelrivera88
Photo Taken Thursday, 01/08/14

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced the indictment of Devin Wayne...

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced the indictment of Devin Wayne McCraney, 35, and Sharika Baksh Allison, 43, on federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas at a press release Thursday. Michael Rivera/@michaelrivera88
Photo Taken Thursday, 01/08/14

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced the indictment of Devin Wayne...

McCraney and Allison have a final pretrial hearing Feb. 27 before jury prequalification begins on March 3 in federal District Judge Ron Clark's court.

The board voted to approve Superintendent Timothy Chargois' recommendation to terminate McCraney and Allison on Nov. 21, two weeks after the FBI executed a search warrant at the employees' homes and the BISD administration building.

Chargois placed the two on paid administrative leave Nov. 7, the day the FBI and federal education authorities searched McCraney's and Allison's homes.

McCraney had appealed his termination, allowing him to remain on paid leave. Allison did not appeal her termination.